"Murder of John Lennon John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. On the evening of Monday, 8 December 1980, Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. After sustaining four major gunshot wounds, Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital. Shortly after local news stations reported Lennon's death, crowds gathered at"
"to New York shortly prior to the murder. Claims include Chapman was a ""Manchurian candidate"", including speculation on links to the CIA's Project MKULTRA. At least one author has argued forensic evidence proves Chapman did not commit the murder. Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American convict who shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and immediately sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's"
"Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American convict who shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and immediately sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's novel ""The Catcher in the Rye"" until he was arrested by the police. He referred to the novel as his statement and later said that his objective was to acquire fame and notoriety. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Chapman"
"I Just Shot John Lennon ""I Just Shot John Lennon"" is a song from The Cranberries' album ""To the Faithful Departed"". It is a narrative of the events of the night of December 8, 1980, the night that musician John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City. It is one of many tributes to Lennon, and also one of many other songs to recall the events of the night. After the narrative, there is commentary: ""What a sad, and sorry and sickening sight"". The title of the song comes from the"
"to the shooting than ""Chapter 27"". On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering 40-year-old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"". In one instant, an anonymous, socially awkward and mentally unstable 25-year-old fan of The Beatles, who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him, altered the course of the history of music. A"
"Tributes to the Beatles The Beatles were originally a quartet, but only two of the members remain. John Lennon was murdered in December 1980, and George Harrison succumbed to lung cancer in 2001. There have been numerous tributes to both of them. During the mid 1960s, Beatlemania was an unprecedented global phenomenon, and two songs devoted to them reached the charts: ""We Love You Beatles"" by The Carefrees (#39) and ""A Letter to the Beatles"" by The Four Preps (#85). Over the years, many other songs mention the group in their lyrics: Lennon was murdered in New York City by"
"October 9, 1985, by New York Mayor Ed Koch and Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, who had underwritten the project. The entrance to the memorial is located on Central Park West at West 72nd Street, directly across from the Dakota Apartments, where Lennon had lived for the latter part of his life, and where he was murdered in 1980. The memorial is a triangular piece of land falling away on the two sides of the park, and its focal point is a circular pathway mosaic of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's famous song: ""Imagine"". This was"
"love him. On 8 December 1980, in New York City, Mark David Chapman shot dead pop star Lennon. His motive was that he felt Lennon was a hypocrite for espousing universal brotherhood, whilst at the same time being a multi-millionaire enjoying a lavish lifestyle far beyond the reach of the large majority of people. On 22 August 1922 in County Cork, Ireland, Irish nationalist leader who fought for Irish independence was shot dead by Anti-Treaty IRA gunmen as they believe he betrayed the Irish Republic. On 21 August 1940 in Mexico City, Bolshevik leader Trotsky was killed with a mountaineering"
"the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman. It takes place in December 1980, and is intended to be an exploration of Chapman's psyche. The script took Schaefer four years to write, but when it was finished, the film came together quickly. With the help of producers Alexandra Milchan and Robert Salerno, Schaefer cast Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman. ""Chapter 27"" premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where it received polarized reactions from critics. It later went into limited theatrical release in the United States on March 28, 2008. ""Chapter 27"" was cited as one of the"
"Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota. Lennon was cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York on 10 December; the ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him. The first media report of Lennon's death to a U.S. national audience was announced by sportscaster Howard Cosell, on ABC's ""Monday Night Football"". Chapman pleaded guilty to the murder of Lennon and was sentenced to 20-years-to-life imprisonment. He has remained in prison ever since, having been denied parole ten times amidst campaigns against his release after he became eligible in 2000. Photographer Annie"
"suggested that the lyrics of the song are a reference to the murder of John Lennon despite the fact that the events in the song do not correspond with those of Lennon's murder. Lennon was shot four times just before 11 pm, whereas in the song the time is 4 am and the number of shots is six. Also, the night Lennon was shot (8 December 1980) was a new moon, so there was no moonlight, and in the song it is Saturday night while Lennon was killed on a Monday night. When asked if ""Moonlight Shadow"" is a reference"
"additional material was recorded for a planned follow-up album ""Milk and Honey"", which was released posthumously, in 1984. ""Double Fantasy"" was jointly released by Lennon and Ono very shortly before his death; the album was not well received and drew comments such as ""Melody Maker""'s ""indulgent sterility ... a godawful yawn"". After an evening at the Record Plant on 8 December 1980, Lennon and Ono returned to their Manhattan apartment in a limousine at around 10:50p.m. (EST). They exited the vehicle and walked through the archway of The Dakota, when lone gunman Mark David Chapman shot Lennon four times in"
"in similar fashion. John Lennon was shot outside his home in New York City on the night of December 8, 1980. Tim Hardin died of a heroin overdose on December 29, 1980. Bob Marley died from a lentiginous skin melanoma on May 11, 1981. Harry Chapin died of a car accident on July 16, 1981. Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father at his home in Los Angeles on April 1, 1984, one day before what would have been his 45th birthday. Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads died in an airplane crash on March 19, 1982. Karen Carpenter died"
"saying anything and Lennon did not turn around. Chapman remained at the scene and appeared to be reading ""The Catcher in the Rye"" when the NYPD officers arrived and arrested him without incident. The first responders recognized Lennon's wounds were severe and decided not to wait for an ambulance. They rushed the mortally wounded musician to Roosevelt Hospital in a squad car, but nothing could be done to save him. Lennon was pronounced dead by Dr. Stephan Lynn at 11:07 p.m. In his statement to police three hours later, Chapman stated, ""I'm sure the big part of me is Holden"
"the back at close range. Lennon was rushed in a police cruiser to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:00p.m. (EST). Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of ""Double Fantasy"" for Chapman. Ono issued a statement the next day, saying ""There is no funeral for John"", ending it with the words, ""John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him."" His remains were cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields"
"island of Viðey, 1 km outside the Skarfabakki harbour in Reykjavík, Iceland. Each year, between October 9 and December 8, it projects a vertical beam of light high into the sky. In 2009, Ono created an exhibit called ""John Lennon: The New York City Years"" for the NYC Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. The exhibit used music, photographs, and personal items to depict Lennon's life in New York, and a portion of the cost of each ticket was donated to Spirit Foundation, a charitable foundation set up by Lennon and Ono. Every time Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman"
"New York. After John Lennon's assassination on December 8, 1980, he moved to Manhattan, where he worked for neighborhood newspapers including The Westsider, East Side Express and Chelsea-Clinton News, and later at the assignment desk and as newswriter and show producer at WNEW-TV's ""10 O'Clock News"". Kearns became a producer and writer for such New York City news operations as WNBC-TV's News 4 New York and CBS News' Nightwatch and CBS Morning News. With a background as a music writer and early chronicler of the punk music scene early in his newspaper career (he performed with Joey Ramone on the"
"York State Legislature swiftly passed preemptive legal statutes anyway, the first legal restriction of its kind in the U.S. The original New York law was invoked in New York eleven times between 1977 and 1990, including once against Mark David Chapman, the murderer of musician John Lennon. Critics argued that the law infringed on freedom of speech and therefore violated the First Amendment, and that ""Son of Sam"" laws take away the financial incentive for many criminals to tell their stories, some of which (such as the Watergate scandal and the assassination of John F. Kennedy) were of vital interest"
"Live in New York City (John Lennon album) Live in New York City is a posthumous live album by English rock musician John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band. It was prepared under the supervision of his widow, Yoko Ono, and released in 1986 as his second official live album, the first being ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"". Recorded on 30 August 1972 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Lennon performed two shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, a benefit concert for the Willowbrook State School for Retarded Children in New York,"
"to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the album ""Double Fantasy"". He was shot and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building three weeks after the album was released. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved from London to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him. Some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war"
"two. On May 17, 1910, he and Marty Brennan entered a saloon where Lennon was working. After another argument between the two, Lennon drew a revolver and shot Gallagher in the stomach (two of these bullets were still lodged in his body at the time of his trial). Gallagher and Brennan entered another saloon at Eleventh Avenue and Forty-Fifth Street where, according to Gallagher, they unexpectedly encountered Lennon who was now working there. Upon spotting the two gang members, he swore at them and apparently went for his hip pocket when Gallagher pulled his pistol and fired three shots, killing"
"to stay. On December 8, 1972, after Nixon's reelection in November, the FBI closed its investigation of Lennon, partially because Lennon has shown ""inactivity in Revolutionary Activities."" According to Wiener, the FBI had succeeded in ""neutralizing"" Lennon's opposition to Nixon's reelection. John Lennon was murdered in December 1980. In 1981, while conducting research for a book about John Lennon, Wiener learned of the FBI surveillance, and that there were either 281 or 400 pages of files on the ex-Beatle. Wiener requested the release of the FBI's files on Lennon by citing the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI refused to"
"West Village townhouse for sale at , stating she wanted to move closer to her daughter. Annie Leibovitz Anna-Lou ""Annie"" Leibovitz (; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated, and her work has been used on numerous album covers and magazines. She became the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery in 1991. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2, 1949, Anna-Lou Leibovitz is the third of six children of Marilyn Edith (née Heit) and Samuel Leibovitz. She is a third-generation American; her father's"
"don't believe in Jesus"", but also sang that he did not believe in the Bible, Buddha, the ""Gita"", and the Beatles. Critics of Lennon's lyrics have also focused on the line ""Imagine there's no heaven"" from his 1971 song ""Imagine"". Lennon was murdered on 8 December 1980 by Mark David Chapman, who had become a born-again Christian in 1970 and was incensed by Lennon's ""more popular than Jesus"" remark, calling it blasphemy. He later stated that he was further enraged by the songs ""God"" and ""Imagine"", even singing the latter with the altered lyric: ""Imagine John Lennon dead"". Notes Citations"
"Annie Leibovitz Anna-Lou ""Annie"" Leibovitz (; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated, and her work has been used on numerous album covers and magazines. She became the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery in 1991. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2, 1949, Anna-Lou Leibovitz is the third of six children of Marilyn Edith (née Heit) and Samuel Leibovitz. She is a third-generation American; her father's parents were Romanian Jews. Her mother was a modern dance instructor of Estonian-Jewish heritage. Her father"
"The Killing of John Lennon The Killing of John Lennon is a 2006 British biographical drama film about Mark David Chapman's plot to kill musician John Lennon. The film was written and directed by Andrew Piddington and stars Jonas Ball, Robert C. Kirk and Thomas A. McMahon. British-produced, it was not released in the United States until 2008 and received much less attention than the similarly themed American-produced independent film ""Chapter 27"" produced in 2007. While ""Chapter 27"" deals almost wholly with the actions of Mark Chapman during the three days before his murder of Lennon, this film chronicles his"
"Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) ""Sunday Bloody Sunday"" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was first released on their 1972 album with Elephant's Memory, ""Some Time in New York City"". The song addresses the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 and is one of two on the album that addresses the contemporary Northern Ireland conflict, ""The Luck of the Irish"" being the other. Lennon had sympathies for the Roman Catholic Irish minority in Northern Ireland and had joined a protest in London on 11 August 1971 that attempted to pressure the British"
"John Lennon appeared in what would turn out to be his final televised interview. Since at the time Lennon faced deportation proceedings from America over his 1968 misdemeanor conviction for cannabis possession in London, after the first part of the interview during which Snyder covered the regular topics, Lennon's legal representative - immigration attorney Leon Wildes - joined Lennon on the panel to discuss the details of the case, as the famous musician directed his message at the American public in an appeal of sorts to be allowed to remain in the United States. Following Lennon's murder on 8 December"
"as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life. She was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humour. She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele. She kept in almost daily contact with John, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house. On 15 July 1958, she was struck down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. Lennon was traumatised by her death and wrote several songs"
"Dublin, Ireland, living as a tax exile. Upon hearing the news that Lennon had been murdered on 8 December 1980, Shotton visited Harrison at Friar Park, Harrison's home. Shotton is the co-author of ""John Lennon: In My Life"" (1983, republished later as ""The Beatles, Lennon and Me""), which told the story of their friendship, from the age of six until Lennon's death. Shotton died on 24 March 2017 at his home in Knutsford, Cheshire. Pete Shotton Peter Shotton (4 August 1941 – 24 March 2017) was an English businessman and former washboard player. He is known for his long friendship"
"Lennon Sisters) felt that the father stood in the way and had to be eliminated. Lying in wait, Young shot him in the parking lot of the Marina Del Rey golf course and two months later used the same gun to commit suicide. The family later discovered an unopened letter having a cutout of Mr. Lennon, a picture of a gun pointed at his head, and the words ""High Noon"" (the time of the murder) (source Dr. Doreen Orion, ""I Know You Really Love Me""). Venice was founded in 1977; the band was initially founded by him and his cousin"
"recordings of Dr. John made at the Hit Factory are of indeterminate status, presumed in the Crown Casino or Nexxt Productions intellectual property vault After the death of John Lennon, on December 8, 1980, public awareness of The Hit Factory increased; Lennon's final album had been recorded at Hit Factory's Times Square studio at 353 West 48th Street. Mourners and music fans around the world read accounts of the murder in newspapers on the days following the shooting, and the Hit Factory was mentioned in some of these publications. However, there are contradictory reports as to whether he was recording"
"in Manhattan), Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had been stalking Lennon for two months. ""Walking on Thin Ice (For John)"" was released as a single less than a month later, and became Ono's first chart success, peaking at No. 58 and gaining major underground airplay. In 1981, she released the album ""Season of Glass"", which featured the striking cover photo of Lennon's bloody spectacles next to a half-filled glass of water, with a window overlooking Central Park in the background. This photograph sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for about"